Category: play
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poor taste
This morning I learned I’m a man of very poor taste. Here’s how I know: I accidentally boiled a pot of coffee this morning. I walked away, I got distracted, and when I remembered and ran back to the kitchen, I found the pot boiling furiously. “Well, that’ll never be drinkable,” I said to myself,… Read.
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WFF Day 5
We’ve upped our game! 4 movies yesterday, starting with “Saving Brinton,” about Mike Zahs, an Iowa farmer who finds a treasure trove of silent films, magic lantern shows and other bricabrac from the era of silent movies in the basement of an Iowa farmhouse. Zahs tries to get someone to preserve them, but when no… Read.
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WFF Day 4
Take Richard Pryor near the peak of his career, put him in a caper movie with Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto, and what have you got? Well, in the case of “Blue Collar” you have probably the most tragic waste of time and talent of 1978. This movie is a manic-depressive roller-coaster that rolls from… Read.
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WFF Day 3
We watched only four films yesterday. It’s like we’ve already given up trying to squish as many film as we can into each day. What kind of losers are we, eh? The amazing Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the subject of our first documentary film of the day, “RBG.” My Darling B had probably the most… Read.
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WFF Day Two
“12 Days” was a somber, repetitive, and apparently pointless film that gets its title from the period of time a person can be held against their will in a psychiatric ward before they must be allowed a hearing before a judge to determine if they were rightfully interred. The film opened on a scene of… Read.
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WFF opening night
Yesterday was the opening day of the Wisconsin Film Fest. I didn’t take the day off from work, but My Darling B did. Didn’t get her out of the office, though; she still had to go in for a ten o’clock meeting. That’s just how awesomely important she is: The DMV can’t go on without… Read.
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post cruise
We’re back from our cruise. The cruise ship docked on Sunday morning, then we stayed overnight in San Diego and flew back to Madison on Monday, a trip that took pretty much all day because our flight didn’t leave San Diego until eleven and we had a layover in Denver that was almost three hours.… Read.
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Mr Neutron
I’m about halfway through Monty Python Speaks, a sort of oral history of the show, the movies, and everything else Python. I happened to find a copy while I was at the library trying to convince the desk clerk I returned the copy of The Geek Feminist Manifesto that I checked out last year. While she… Read.
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John Young
Fare thee well, John Young, and we thank you. Read.
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regulation
I’m washing a ton of dirty clothes today, and that means I’m folding a ton of clothes, too, and THAT means I’m watching a movie while I fold clothes. Today, I’m watching Twelve O’Clock High. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen this movie, but it’s not enough. I’m still not tired of it,… Read.
